Who We Are
We are born with a desire to create and explore through play and problem solving.
OHANA Movement is
a family of families
We are curious, fun-seeking and instinctually playful by nature. When we reconnect with these fundamental traits, we reconnect with ourselves. Our skill is to form a program designed around our creation of guided play and curiosity with our underpinning human movement qualities. Our approach naturally helps us become better physically, mentally and socially but it also helps us see something new in ourselves that we didn’t know existed before.
Our way forward is together like a good friendship. Allowing the possibility of individuality and camaraderie, the emergence of creativity and transformation and a social understanding to bring us together and leave its own mark.
Children today are naturally full of boundless energy, and we have taken that resource, turned it on its head with our play-based approach to bring together the child and the grownup.
We learn from the people we love.
“Ohana means family.
Family means nobody gets left behind.”
- Lilo & Stitch
FOUNDER &
PROGRAM COORDINATOR
With a background in education, elite level sport and various movement practices holding me in good stead while creating OHANA Movement, I believe there is a lot we can learn from our side gigs and different interests in life.
Great people are able to connect with others from all different backgrounds. When we recognise the importance of our friends, family, coaches and mentors, it often leads to building strong relationships with ourselves as well as others. We listen better, we observe better and therefore solve problems better. We understand difference better.
As a casual relief teacher in several Melbourne schools, I am an advocate for the use of movement and creative play in the treatment of physical and mental well-being, and believe there is much to gain from engaging in this as a family unit. When children and adults are able to move both individually and collectively, it brings us together.
My interest is not in telling children and their grownups how to play, but rather to provide a safe framework for them to explore different possibilities freely within their own minds and bodies. Play-based learning being the universal soundtrack of our work, encouraging challenge and change through observation, imitation and imagination.
I am learning that the childhood phase of human development is a wonderful gift when you get to observe children every day. It has allowed me to understand the most important gift. Not just how I look at the children but how I look at myself now as an adult.
OHANA is more than just a movement program. It’s about creating a workspace of friendship and healthy sacrifice. A conversation about kindness and joy.
it’s a game i cannot play alone.
Book a private family movement session with Rebecca below.
